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mitch mcconnell wanted to get everything done they agreed to. so far the democrats who are running the senate say not yet. >> if it's more politically palatable for the house republicans to vote on it tomorrow as opposed to today, why don't the senate republicans wait till tomorrow as well? >> that's a great point. something we've been talking about internally in the hours and hours we've been spending walking the halls and standing and waiting. that is certainly a potential political reason to wait. it doesn't seem as though that really is what's driving e senate republicans. it's more of an issue of, i'm told by republicans sources in the house, maybe just a handful of republicans, who could be swayed to vote for it. otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to do it. >> dana, stand by. i'm anxious to see what the senate, the democratic leadership, the republican leadership, decides to do. will there be a vote on the floor in the coming hours? standby. a lot at stake. what does it mean if the u.s. goes over the fiscal cliff? technically, the u.s
mitch mcconnell wanted to get everything done they agreed to. so far the democrats who are running the senate say not yet. >> if it's more politically palatable for the house republicans to vote on it tomorrow as opposed to today, why don't the senate republicans wait till tomorrow as well? >> that's a great point. something we've been talking about internally in the hours and hours we've been spending walking the halls and standing and waiting. that is certainly a potential...
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i think the key player is mitch mcconnell to watch. we're getting potentially more information about what is happening next. our capitol hill producer deidre walsh was there when some of the leaders returned and she spoke with nancy pelosi who said this meeting was constructive and candid. here's what is especially interesting. nancy pelosi told reporters that the president led a meeting that ended with senators reid and mcconnell trying to work something out between the two of them. now it seems like we've gone from a process that was president obama and speaker boehner and then today to five leaders back to two. and those two, for the moment, seem to be senator reid and senator mccon until. also, i had a source in senator mcconnell's office who said we should be getting a statement from the republican leader of the senate any time now. so that statement will tell us a lot, candy. >> it will. but we also know that even though it's in the senate hands now which is basically where speaker boehner tossed it when he couldn't get his plan
i think the key player is mitch mcconnell to watch. we're getting potentially more information about what is happening next. our capitol hill producer deidre walsh was there when some of the leaders returned and she spoke with nancy pelosi who said this meeting was constructive and candid. here's what is especially interesting. nancy pelosi told reporters that the president led a meeting that ended with senators reid and mcconnell trying to work something out between the two of them. now it...
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. >> that, of course, was senator mitch mcconnell and here we have the majority leader in the senate, harry reid. let's listen in for a second. >> the house has reported by the press and we all know, one of the plans didn't have a name, it wasn't plan b. i don't know which plan it was because they've had a number over there. but this plan was to show the american people that the $250,000 ceiling on raising taxes wouldn't pass in the house. why didn't they have that vote? because it would have passed. they wanted to kill it. the speaker wanted to show everybody that it wouldn't pass the house. but he couldn't bring it up for vote because it wouldn't pass. republicans -- a myriad of republicans think it's the fair thing to do and of course every democrat would vote for that. the republican leader finds himself frustrated that the president has called on him to help address the fiscal cliff. he's upset because, quote, the phone never rang. he complains that i have not passed the resolution to pass the fiscal cliff but he's in error. we all know that in july of this year we passed in the
. >> that, of course, was senator mitch mcconnell and here we have the majority leader in the senate, harry reid. let's listen in for a second. >> the house has reported by the press and we all know, one of the plans didn't have a name, it wasn't plan b. i don't know which plan it was because they've had a number over there. but this plan was to show the american people that the $250,000 ceiling on raising taxes wouldn't pass in the house. why didn't they have that vote? because it...
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>> mitch mcconnell, top republican on the senate side, we'll get his view of how he thinks the romney campaign is going. and also, what does the senate plan to do between now and november? >> 9:00 a.m. eastern/noon eastern, "state of the union with candy crowley." thanks very much. >>> a horrible plunge from seven miles high, 228 lives lost over the atlantic. investigators largely blame pilot air for that air france crash. we're taking a closer look at whether it could happen again. >>> and survivors tell us about their desperate struggle on the night their cruise ship capsized off the italian coast. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. >>> it was a horrible plunge from seven miles high that ended at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. now investigators have released their final report, detailing why 228 people aboard an air france jet plummeted to their deaths three year
>> mitch mcconnell, top republican on the senate side, we'll get his view of how he thinks the romney campaign is going. and also, what does the senate plan to do between now and november? >> 9:00 a.m. eastern/noon eastern, "state of the union with candy crowley." thanks very much. >>> a horrible plunge from seven miles high, 228 lives lost over the atlantic. investigators largely blame pilot air for that air france crash. we're taking a closer look at whether it...
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doesn't speak for mitch mcconnell. and they don't support the things he was saying about rape and so forth. >> we've invited him to join us in the next two hours. see if he makes a call. if he wants to join us, he's more than welcome. get his last words before the 6:00 p.m. eastern deadline. thanks very much. we'll standby for breaking news. if it happens on that front. meanwhile, abortion is now center stage in the battle for the white house. only a week before the start -- less than a week i should say before the start of the republican convention republicans have just approved a tough new platform against the politically charged issue. and there are concerns there could be some fallout for mitt romney. let's get the latest. our cnn political reporter, peter hamby first broke the story of the abortion platform stance. what is the latest on this sensitive subject, pete? >> reporter: you're right, wolf. the it's the only story coming out of tampa today. basically what's happening just a few feet from me is the republic
doesn't speak for mitch mcconnell. and they don't support the things he was saying about rape and so forth. >> we've invited him to join us in the next two hours. see if he makes a call. if he wants to join us, he's more than welcome. get his last words before the 6:00 p.m. eastern deadline. thanks very much. we'll standby for breaking news. if it happens on that front. meanwhile, abortion is now center stage in the battle for the white house. only a week before the start -- less than a...
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>> and mitch mcconnell -- >> and mitch mcconnell by the way. right. >> the president is in a different position now. re-elected by a pretty impressive margin than he was the last time he tried to forge a deal that collapsed. >> right. that was the debt ceiling. he had a real problem with that with the grand bargain. he also had after the 2010 midterms when he had a lame duck session of congress and he had to give on keeping the tax cuts for the wealthy. this is a president right now who believes he's got some leverage. he got re-elected. and these are republicans who are trying to figure out just who they are andy ds sun the president's press conference earlier this week, he's somebody who studied the flaws of a e d i make some progress without overreaching. it's very clear they're worried at the white house about doing some overreach here. if he can get a fiscal deal done, that will be very, very important for his legacy in the long-term. and he knows it. >> are the republicans operating from the same game plan? >> no. i think they're not. i m
>> and mitch mcconnell -- >> and mitch mcconnell by the way. right. >> the president is in a different position now. re-elected by a pretty impressive margin than he was the last time he tried to forge a deal that collapsed. >> right. that was the debt ceiling. he had a real problem with that with the grand bargain. he also had after the 2010 midterms when he had a lame duck session of congress and he had to give on keeping the tax cuts for the wealthy. this is a...
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now, that might not have been good for the democrats, but not following the mitch mcconnell view that your party's advantage is more important than the economic well-being of your constituents, i would have taken that. but we didn't have myth romney. we had mitt romney. and he did the democrats a favor, not the state. after four consecutive republican elections, when mitt romney ran for re-election -- his term was up, he was afraid to run for re-election. letting the lieutenant governor take a fall and the republicans haven't won a major election in statewide office since. it's a state office. well, if we didn't get the job experience and we can't look to the past to be reassured, let's look to the future. you know there are a lot of romneys. there's the romney who was going to be better on gay rights than ted kennedy. there was the romney for climate change. and now there's a romney who believes it's a myth, to coin the phrase. but let's look at what we have from the mitt romney who's running for president. he has now basically committed himself to repeat every failed and mistaken po
now, that might not have been good for the democrats, but not following the mitch mcconnell view that your party's advantage is more important than the economic well-being of your constituents, i would have taken that. but we didn't have myth romney. we had mitt romney. and he did the democrats a favor, not the state. after four consecutive republican elections, when mitt romney ran for re-election -- his term was up, he was afraid to run for re-election. letting the lieutenant governor take a...
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mitch mcconnell said that kerry would be a popular choice with the senate. as the controversy has brewed over the past couple of weeks over susan rice, her chief opponents have also publicly been saying that they want john kerry, that they think he's the most qualified. if he is nominated, it's very safe to say that he will sale through the senate unless something unbelievable comes up that we don't know about. he's been pretty vetted since the is the senate of the chairman committee. it's been awkward really sort of the atmosphere because everybody has been saying, will she get the votes, what happened in benghazi? meanwhile, we've had to ask him a couple of times what he thinks and it's very awkward for him and so that is over and perhaps he is going to get some good news. >> if john kerry does get the president's nod to be nominated, it opens up his seat in the state of massachusetts and there is politics involved. explain what is going on because some democrats are concerned. >> reporter: that's right. the fact that ted barrett said mitch mcconnell would
mitch mcconnell said that kerry would be a popular choice with the senate. as the controversy has brewed over the past couple of weeks over susan rice, her chief opponents have also publicly been saying that they want john kerry, that they think he's the most qualified. if he is nominated, it's very safe to say that he will sale through the senate unless something unbelievable comes up that we don't know about. he's been pretty vetted since the is the senate of the chairman committee. it's been...
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you're aware of what mitch mcconnell said years ago when the president was first being inaugurated. number one goal to make the president a one-term president. we know that republicans were conspireing on the night of the president's inaugural to block anything from getting through so the president wouldn't have a record. well, he does have a record. through his own initiative, through executive actions to move this country forward and also passed monumental legislation whether it's holding wall street accountable, playing by the same rules as main street, historic health care reform. after 70 years of trying we have historic health care reform. peel all over the country benefiting from it. tax cuts. on average, middle class family's taxes $3,600 less than when we took office. the president turned the economy around. we have more work to do. he has a yaend to do that. we need willing partners. he talked about the election as breaking the fever. the reason we don't have a deficit reduction deal, the reason why we're dealing with sequesters is because republicans won't give an inch. w
you're aware of what mitch mcconnell said years ago when the president was first being inaugurated. number one goal to make the president a one-term president. we know that republicans were conspireing on the night of the president's inaugural to block anything from getting through so the president wouldn't have a record. well, he does have a record. through his own initiative, through executive actions to move this country forward and also passed monumental legislation whether it's holding...
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. >> this must make mitch mcconnell crazy. >> oh, i can't even imagine. >>> thanks very much. former president bill clinton is sounding off on one of the key international issues of this election campaign. what to do about iran and the claim by iranian leaders that they're not pursuing a nuclear weapon. he spoke with cnn's piers morgan today. listen to this. >> what they're really saying is in spite of the fact that we threatened israel, demonized the united states, we do all this stuff, we want you to trust us. in spite of the fact that we won't cooperate with the international regime set up to avoid an arms race in the middle east and set up to avoid nuclear proliferation, we want you to trust us. so they don't have a tenable position. they don't have a tenable position. >> do you trust ahmadinejad? >> not on this i don't. >> why should america be allowed nuclear weapons? why should israel who've never admitted they have them, why should they be permitted to have them? why should many countries be allowed nuclear weapons and not iran? >> well then why isn't he going for some
. >> this must make mitch mcconnell crazy. >> oh, i can't even imagine. >>> thanks very much. former president bill clinton is sounding off on one of the key international issues of this election campaign. what to do about iran and the claim by iranian leaders that they're not pursuing a nuclear weapon. he spoke with cnn's piers morgan today. listen to this. >> what they're really saying is in spite of the fact that we threatened israel, demonized the united states,...
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i guess -- oh, you always ask that question except to mitch mcconnell. ♪ [ gordon ] for some this line is a convenience. how you doing today? i'm good thanks. how are you? i'm good. [ gordon ] but for others, it's all they can afford. every day nearly nine million older americans don't have enough to eat. anything else? no, not today. join me, aarp, and aarp foundation in the drive to end hunger by visiting drivetoendhunger.org. [ "the odd couple" theme playing ] humans. even when...
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mitch mcconnell said my number one goal is to defeat the president. that has failed. now there's political peril. also, the senate democrats picked up seats. across the country. so not in one region. so they're clear about that. and the president's always going to be open to different ideas, but not change the goals. and the goal is not just an economic strategy based on austerity but one that's pro-growth, pro-middle class that allows job creation while you're bringing fiscal discipline to washington. it's not one or the other. it's both. obviously john boehner is wanting to work with the president. he's already expressed some opening to do that. it's going to take a while to get there, but if there's a willingness, i think the president is going to make sure that we achieve a pro-growth strategy while bringing fiscal discipline. and does john boehner have the capacity? i think it's incumbent upon his caucus so to say we're spending a speaker in to -- we all have self-interest as the president said regardless of who you're voting for to resolve the issues facing the
mitch mcconnell said my number one goal is to defeat the president. that has failed. now there's political peril. also, the senate democrats picked up seats. across the country. so not in one region. so they're clear about that. and the president's always going to be open to different ideas, but not change the goals. and the goal is not just an economic strategy based on austerity but one that's pro-growth, pro-middle class that allows job creation while you're bringing fiscal discipline to...
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it was republicans led by quite frankly mitch mcconnell who said his job was to see the president get defeated who blocked everything the president wanted. the president wasn't the problem on the compromise. you see in the exit polling, american people say we want this sort of raised revenues and want the tax breaks for the rich people to go away. the question is are the republicans in the senate and republicans in congress going to listen to what the american people said and go along with it. >> does that meanest not wedded to the $250,000? >> i will take what mr. carney said. >> the president has been open to some compromise. >> he went out of his way the other day to say i am not saying all my ideas have to be accepted, i am open to compromise, i am open to new ideas. i want to make sure this gets done. >> you have to understand what the president is doing. and this is not civics 101. he has a tough mine to plan. his goal is to break republicans on the tax pledge. the way he will do that is he says i am going to load you up an offer so appealing to so many of your constituents, it
it was republicans led by quite frankly mitch mcconnell who said his job was to see the president get defeated who blocked everything the president wanted. the president wasn't the problem on the compromise. you see in the exit polling, american people say we want this sort of raised revenues and want the tax breaks for the rich people to go away. the question is are the republicans in the senate and republicans in congress going to listen to what the american people said and go along with it....
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. >> the democrats to have what mitch mcconnell said early on, the number one goal of the republican is also to defeat the president. make sure he doesn't serve a second term. >> when you say that, what is the public supposed to think? and it gives the president an opportunity. >> so tw the question the democrats can't seem to escape, are you better off now than you were four years ago? but some answers could create a major stumbling block before the convention begins. i'll ask the chair of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman schultz. plus vice president joe biden is addressing the question head on. and he isn't mincing words. continuing to lend and investe in communities across the country. whether it's supporting a delaware nonprofit that's providing training and employment opportunities, investing in the revitalization of a neighborhood in the bronx, or providing the financing to help a beloved san diego bakery expand, what's important to communities across the country is important to us. and we're proud to work with all of those who are creating a stronger future
. >> the democrats to have what mitch mcconnell said early on, the number one goal of the republican is also to defeat the president. make sure he doesn't serve a second term. >> when you say that, what is the public supposed to think? and it gives the president an opportunity. >> so tw the question the democrats can't seem to escape, are you better off now than you were four years ago? but some answers could create a major stumbling block before the convention begins. i'll...
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senator majority leader mitch mcconnell announced he would not filibuster the measure. instead he allowed a straight up-or-down majority wins vote. the republican plan, extend the tax cuts for everyone. and president obama's plan, extend the cuts for 98% of americans, how olds making under $250,000 a year. why would senator mcconnell do such a thing? >> the only way to force people to take a stand is to make sure that today's votes truly count, by setting these shoet votes at a 50-vote threshold, nobody on the other side can hide behind a procedural vote while leaving their views on the actual bill itself a mystery, a simple mystery to the people who sent them here. >> and tonight, we now know where everyone stands. the democrats' bill narrowly passed, 51 to 48. with two democt,
senator majority leader mitch mcconnell announced he would not filibuster the measure. instead he allowed a straight up-or-down majority wins vote. the republican plan, extend the tax cuts for everyone. and president obama's plan, extend the cuts for 98% of americans, how olds making under $250,000 a year. why would senator mcconnell do such a thing? >> the only way to force people to take a stand is to make sure that today's votes truly count, by setting these shoet votes at a 50-vote...
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listen to mitch mcconnell, top republican in the senate when he was asked about romney releasing his tax returns. >> i wish the president would let us know what he knew about fast and furious. he is in office, that's directly related to his re-election, his performance. those are the kinds of disclosure issues if you will that i think the american people are really interested in. the campaign can speak for itself on its strategy. >> as you know, the attorney general of the united states has been held in criminal contempt by the house of representatives, the body you used to serve, for not releasing all of the documents they want in this botched investigation. >> the administration, the white house and effected agencies have issued thousands of -- >> not all of the documents -- >> that will be litigated. but nobody can say anybody is hiding the essence of what -- >> republicans are saying that. >> fine. but the point is that governor romney and the presidential race, it is not about how the obama people would respond, how the decrats will respond, this is about the american people's r
listen to mitch mcconnell, top republican in the senate when he was asked about romney releasing his tax returns. >> i wish the president would let us know what he knew about fast and furious. he is in office, that's directly related to his re-election, his performance. those are the kinds of disclosure issues if you will that i think the american people are really interested in. the campaign can speak for itself on its strategy. >> as you know, the attorney general of the united...
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. >> i was actually talking to one of mitch mcconnell's top aides yesterday and he said we are going to do this or die trying. the first thing they have to do is flip four senate seats. >> were you surprised by what romney said today? it does on the surface seem to be way different than what his senior advisor said on monday. >> i was a little surprised. but this is something mitt romney has struggled with for years. i covered him five years ago in his first run for the presidency. and i remember asking him in the fall of 2007, he said that under his health care plan, he could get every american insured within four years. i said, governor, how are you going to do that without a mandate? and he said he would implement a system of incentives and sticks so that states could deregulate their health insurance markets and then force all of their citizens in each of those states to get insurance. but sticks to me sounds like penalty. >> certainly does. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> erin mcpike coming in from real clear politics. appreciate it. >>> to west virginia now. a situation so d
. >> i was actually talking to one of mitch mcconnell's top aides yesterday and he said we are going to do this or die trying. the first thing they have to do is flip four senate seats. >> were you surprised by what romney said today? it does on the surface seem to be way different than what his senior advisor said on monday. >> i was a little surprised. but this is something mitt romney has struggled with for years. i covered him five years ago in his first run for the...